London, July 16 (IANS) Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse’s marriage will end in a “quick divorce” Thursday.
Thesun.co.uk reports that Winehouse’s drug-ravaged husband Blake Fielder-Civil is asking for the divorce. The 27-year-old Fielder-Civil is claiming her adultery is the reason for the divorce. He may also seek a share in her estimated $17 million fortune.

During their 26-month marriage, the two plunged into heroin addiction that almost destroyed them both, although 25-year-old Winehouse saw her pop career soar.

Fielder-Civil, a video production assistant, was alleged to have fathered another woman’s child while in rehabilitation centre earlier this year.

“I am not excited. I don’t feel victorious,” said Jarnail Singh as he watched a news channel breaking the story on Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar being denied Lok Sabha tickets.

“If the Sikh community is mollified by Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar being denied tickets, then I would say I have achieved a small part of my objective,” said the 36-year-old journalist. An unassuming reporter who covered the defence beat, Singh shot into limelight after he threw his Reebok shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday protesting the CBI clean chit to Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Remorseful, he insisted that he never intended to hit the minister. “I tossed the shoe to his right.

Impulse got the better of me. The home minister had said last week that he was happy that Tytler had got a clean chit.

I was bereft of all hope. Did he not know that our hearts had bled for 25 years,” said Singh, known among his colleagues as a reticent and uncontroversial man.

His cell phone rang incessantly at his brother’s modest apartment in Lajpat Nagar. His brother runs a business of automobile accessories.

Singh swigged down a mango drink. It appeared as if nothing has changed.

Only, he has not returned home since Tuesday and almost forgot to wish his wife on their wedding anniversary on Wednesday. He missed being with his six-year-old son and the two-year-old daughter.

Singh – I always called him Jerry – had bought the Reebok pair from a store in Seattle last May during an assignment. He had asked me if they looked cool.

I had nodded in agreement. The sneakers cost him $60.

He grinned when I reminded him that. “Did you get your shoe back,” I asked.

Negative, he replied. I checked out his new leather sandals.

They were black. The sneakers were white with a blue logo.

Singh veered the conversation from the offbeat to the more intense. “It’s not about two men not contesting the elections.

It’s about healing the wounds of the Sikhs. The ghost of the 1984 massacre never left us,” he said, switching off his cell phone that was being bombarded with calls from journalists wanting his reaction on the Tytler-Sajjan Kumar saga.

“All this is giving me a headache.” Singh was playing cricket in the neighbourhood park when a mob charged into Lajpat Nagar to slaughter Sikhs, 25 years ago.

His mother hid him in a small room. His polio-stricken brother was attacked.

The neighbourhood gurudwara was burnt down. Those images are still fresh in his mind.

“I never wanted to be in the limelight. I only wanted to remind the nation that Sikhs are still waiting for justice.

This is India and not Afghanistan where the Taliban rule,” said Singh. He is known to be deeply religious but not dogmatic.

He often read spiritual books while travelling on defence assignments. “When the PM apologised for the anti-Sikh riots in 2005, it purged the bitterness from our hearts.

The Sikhs were hopeful that justice would be done. And then the CBI gave a clean chit to Tytler.

” He clarified that he had no plans to jump into the hurly-burly of politics. Nor is he hankering for cash rewards announced by a few Sikh organisations.

“Use the money for the rehabilitation of riot victims,” he said.

New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Fans of popular Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt can read about his eventful life in his autobiography, “The Roar of a Lion”, which he is now working on.

“Sanjay Dutt’s autobiography is called ‘The Roar of a Lion’ and it is almost half way done,” a well-placed source in the film industry told IANS here Saturday, revealing the title that was the subject of much guesswork so far.

The date for the book’s release has not been decided as Dutt is busy with his film schedules.

He had long been telling friends about his wish to pen an autobiography. When he told his wife Manyata about it, she backed him to the hilt.

Meanwhile, Dutt’s filmmaker friend Sanjay Gupta too has commissioned a biography of the actor as a tribute to him.

To be penned by journalist, author and lyricist Neelesh Mishra, it will be in three volumes covering Dutt’s life in three phases.

The first volume will deal with the period when the star went into drug rehabilitation. The second volume will recount his marriage to Richa Sharma, their divorce and her tragic death, while the final volume will be about his legal battles, probation and life beyond all that.

New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) A website to create awareness among the blind and people with low vision has been launched here. The NGO, which took the initiative, claims that the portal is the first of its kind in the country.

The website www.eyeway.org provides information on eye disorders, services, education, rehabilitation, parenting, legal provisions, recreation and career guidance to the blind people.

“The website has been specially designed to create awareness among the visually-impaired people on issues related to them. The problem with the blind people is not their blindness, but the thinking and attitude of their families, the society and of themselves,” said George Abraham, head of the NGO Score Foundation, during the launch of the website here Wednesday.

The portal is dynamic and has special accessibility features such as choice of background, font colour, text only options and dynamic search functions. It has three sections – informs, inspires and includes, for the wholesome information requirements of the blind.

The website enables the user to navigate with the help of magnification and talking software. The software has been bought at a cost of $800 from the US.

“We are continuously researching for information that is inspirational and empowering visually impaired people, besides looking for opportunities of reaching out to more and more people,” said Abraham, who is also the chairman of Association for Cricket for the Blind in India.

The NGO also runs a radio programme in Hindi, which is broadcast from 30 stations of All India Radio. There is also a helpdesk at the foundation that receives calls related to various issues that concern the blind people.

There are over 16 million blind people in the country and a further 28 million are with low vision.